Bad: Might be just me but I hold x to fast move a block and it stays where it is half the time. Hurts my eyes (probably me getting old).

7.5/10

Sudoku (Yes, I know)

Good: It's Sudoku. Though with the added bonus of allowing you to play your music while you work on those brain muscles. Perfect if you want to do both at once. Controls are fine after a few seconds.

Bad: It's Sudoku. The music chooser can't recognise any more than a single folder down from the music folder and can't recognise certain characters. Putting the PSP to sleep while playing music from your collection will cause it to stop and will not restart from where you left off (it can just be re-chosen again). Icons are confusing at first.

Score:

a. Marks out of 6 on how much you like Sudoku.
b. Marks out of 4 on how much you want custom soundtracks while playing.
c. Deduct marks based on your tolerance for the bad points.

Yesterday was payday, and I was stuck in a B&B with little to do and even less to spend money on, so I bought a couple Minis. Bubble Trubble and Spot the Difference.
Thanks to the B&B's wireless connection being a bit shit I only got BT downloaded and its.... a bit pants.

The Good:
Its sort of original-ish. well at least its not falling blocks, and it has a sort of physics-y element to it.
Decent number of challenges, some of which force you to play in totally new ways.
Presentation is passable and it basically runs ok.

BAD:
Presentation is ONLY passable. Its not in danger of being good.
Gameplay can become random and skilless at times. Things go too fast to think about, but it also throws in loads of 'lifelines' so surviving/scoring just feels like luck.
The game does not save your progress or scores. I'll type that one again in caps so you dont miss it.
THE GAME DOES NOT SAVE YOUR PROGRESS OR SCORES.

Spot the Difference!!
When I bought this, I figured it would be one of those games where the concept was so amazingly simple and hard to mess up, that they probably would have anyway.
But guess what, they didnt! Fancy that.
So what we have here is a game that does exactly what it says on the tin. Loads of images, each with 5 differences to spot. All of the images are nicely shot photograps (meaning they look professional, not some bollocks shot by your sister while on holiday), bits of which have been photoshopped to varying degrees of skill. Both images are displayed side-by-side, you move the cursor around the screen and click on where the difference is. Each level has a timer, and you have a number of 'hints' that recharge over time. You go though images in batches of five, after that a new round unlocks, and the ones you have cleared are saved. YES THE GAME ACTUALLY BOTHERS TO SAVE YOUR PROGRESS. YOU LISTENING CREAT? (doubt it, they dont post here).

Its super-casual. If you really like some difference-spotting its fine, its fairly cheap (£2.50 I think) and its a nice timewaster.

So then, Pinball Dreams is out!
Its just as good a port as Pinball Fantasies (though you could argue about the tables not being quite as interesting depending on personal taste)
£3.99 welll spent though.

Echoes?
Its really rather basic, and short, though the general concept is rather nice.
Top down maze game where you collect gems (collect the first gem, and the next one appears. So you do it mostly in a set order), but each time you collect a gem you create an 'echo' wich is a slower copy of yourself that traces a path back and forth from your starting point (or the point after you collected the last gem) to where you collected the gem.
The more gems you collect, the more echos are created.
Touch an echo and you loose a life, and that echo dissapears. There are power-ups to help you out and trim the number of echos on busier stages, though you still need to think about your route both in terms of not blocking yourself in, but also gathering the echos towards a certain point so they can easily be disposed of if you get a power-up.

25 stages I think. Took about an hour to clear all of them in arcade mode - though there is a heavy emphasys on time-attack for replayability. Also there are other modes that re-use the levels in differnt ways, and 3 difficulty settings.
You might squeeze 3-4 hours out of it if you really want.

Presentation is very simple and it feels a bit like a hommade flash game. Still, £2.49 isnt robbing anyone. I still prefer Spot the Difference, but I'm a sad bastard like that.

Good: It's snooker and I'm a sucker for anything Snookery. You get to add spin on the ball, power and there's nice scope for quick play and full length games.

Bad: Tactical play (i.e. cue ball near the cushion) is non existent as the ball can be hit with any spin on or off the cushion so for real-life snooker fans, avoid. Also, names are changed for licensing (as expected for a £4 game) but I'd rather play against made up names rather than "Ray Sullivan". The music at the menu is also irritating as it pretends to be the BBC Snooker theme with the riffs mixed up to avoid litigation.

In other words, it's pretending to be BBC Snooker

It's also stopped me from starting Vagrant Story...

Score

a) Marks out of 10 whether you like Snooker
b) Deduct marks based on the bad points above
c) BONUS: Deduct points if this stopped you from starting anything else that is better